Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4956424 | Journal of Systems and Software | 2017 | 44 Pages |
Abstract
Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are accepted to be more reusable and understandable entities than object-oriented ones. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach for reengineering object-oriented APIs into component-based ones. We mine components as a group of classes based on the frequency they are used together and their ability to form a quality-centric component. To validate our approach, we experimented on 100 Java applications that used four APIs.
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Authors
Anas Shatnawi, Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, Houari Sahraoui, Zakarea Alshara,